Astranis

Astranis designs and builds small satellites for high orbits, including geostationary (GEO) orbit, and operates them to deliver dedicated satellite broadband. The company applies digital processing technology to spacecraft design, with the stated aim of offering dedicated satellite broadband capacity at the world's lowest cost. Its first product, MicroGEO, is a small, radiation-hardened geostationary satellite built for that purpose.

The engineering work spans several demanding disciplines: satellite design and manufacturing, radiation-hardened spacecraft engineering, digital processing, and specialised electric propulsion for high orbits. Operating in GEO means contending with radiation environments and propulsion problems that the company describes as having been considered unsolvable. Astranis is fully vertically integrated, designing, manufacturing, testing and operating its spacecraft in-house.

As of the figures provided, Astranis has five satellites on orbit and more than ten under contract, with over $1 billion of satellite services sold to customers worldwide. The company is headquartered at Historic Pier 70 in San Francisco, a former warship-building facility, and sells connectivity services across the satellite broadband and telecommunications sectors.